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THE Volume 26, Number 1, 2015 FOLIOA JOURNAL FOR FOCUSING AND EXPERIENTIAL THERAPY POTPOURRI Part 1 iii THE FOLIO iv LETTER FROM THE EDITORS v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 GEMS GLEANED FROM A FOCUSING BODYWORKER Anastasia Brencick, MA, LMP 7 CREATING A PAUSE IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC: The Restorative Process Diane Couture and Solange St-Pierre 15 THE BODY’S RECOVERY OF SPIRIT: Transforming Life-Stances and Releasing Bound Energy-Threshold Events in Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapy Glenn Fleisch, Ph.D., LMFT 24 CARRYING FOCUSING FORWARD AND BOTTOM UP Maria Emanuela Galanti 34 LESSONS FROM A FAMILY FOCUSING CIRCLE: Reflections from The Young and The Young At Heart Soti Grafanaki (with the contributions of Raina Barara and Angela Davis) 39 MAKING FOCUSING MORE POWERFUL: How Focusing-Oriented Realities Help Us Experience the Larger System Elfie Hinterkopf, Ph.D. and David C. Young, LCSW 48 PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH GROUP INCIDENT PROCESS (PCAGIP): A New Presenter-Friendly Approach to Case Conference Mako Hikasa, Yoshiko Kosaka, and Shoji Murayama 58 FOCUSING, JEWISH SPIRITUALITY AND MY SEARCH FOR MEANING Ruth Hirsch The Folio (ISSN: 1063-3693) is the Journal of the Focusing Institute, Inc., Nyack, N.Y. The Focusing Institute is a world-wide membership organization and a not-for-profit corporation in the state of New York. ii • THE FOLIO • 2015 66 SPACE PRESENCING: A Potpourri of Focusing, Clearing A Space, Mindfulness and Spirituality Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. 74 MAKING PEACE WITH OUR BODIES: A Paradigm Shift Katherine M. Kehoe 83 OPENING DOORWAYS TO THE SPIRITUAL IN PSYCHOTHERAPY Joan Klagsbrun, Ph.D. 91 HEARTFELT CONNECTIONS NATURALLY CREATE HEARTFELT CONVERSATIONS Kevin McEvenue 97 HIDDEN TRAUMA: A Personal Story of Living with Dyslexia Jeffrey Morrison, MA, LMHC 106 THE EDGE Suzanne L. Noel 107 SAFETY Suzanne L. Noel 108 CO-CREATING A NEW RESPONSIVENESS: Healing Trauma Through Focusing Partnership Minda Novek 116 LIVING COMMUNITY WELLNESS FOCUSING: How It Can Become Part of Any Program Patricia Omidian, Ph.D., Nina Joy Lawrence and Melinda Darer, with Patti Panzarino and Nasser ben Hassen 125 AN ODE TO FOCUSING, PEACE, LOVE AND ALL THAT JAZZ Lyly Rojas, Ph.D. 127 KEEPER OF THE FLAME: Healing Inter-Generational Trauma Using Focusing-Oriented Therapy Beilah Ross, LICSW 137 HELPING CHILDREN (AND ADULTS) TO FIND THEIR INNER HOME Tine Swyngedouw 145 WHERE IS FOCUSING IN TODAY’S MIND/BODY EXPLORATIONS? Mary Jane Wilkie 150 WAYS OF GROUPING: Honoring Personal Intricacy in Group Formats Rosa Zubizarreta Copyright ©2015 by The Focusing Institute, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of any material without prior agreement and written permission from the publisher is prohib- ited. Printed in the U.S.A. THE FOLIO • iii THE FOLIO A Journal for Focusing and Experiential Therapy Focusing Institute 15 North Mill Street (Suite 210) Nyack, N.Y. 10960 U.S.A. Phone: (845) 480-5111 Fax: (845) 704-0461 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.focusing.org EDITORS Bala Jaison, Ph.D. Toronto, On. Canada [email protected] Paula Nowick, Ed. D. Springfield, Ma. U.S.A. [email protected] LAYOUT AND PRODUCTION Carolyn Kasper Marlboro, Vt. U.S.A. [email protected] INFORMATION Hard-bound copies of The Folio are available at a reduced rate for members of the Focusing Institute whose dues are fully paid. ORDERING THE FOLIO In addition to a hard copy of the Folio we are now able to offer a Kindle edition. To order either — or both! — please go to: http://www.focusing.org/potpourrifolio2015 iv • THE FOLIO • 2015 LETTER FROM THE EDITORS Each Spring we send out an email to all of you asking for suggestions for a theme for the forthcoming Folio, and in response we usually receive a huge variety of stimulating possibilities. Normally, we are able to find a commonality among several of the twenty or so suggestions, enabling us to rub our hands together in delight as we agree between ourselves that we indeed have this year’s theme. This Spring, however, each of your suggestions was quite singular, meaning that we had absolutely no consensus! “My goodness...” one of us said, “this list is like a gigantic potpourri,” and the other quickly responded, “Potpourri! Wow!! How about THAT as our theme? We could celebrate the diversity of the passions that Focusing evokes in our com- munity...the profusion of differing ways people carry forward their experiences in Focus- ing...THAT would be an amazing theme!” DONE!! We announced Potpourri as our theme and did the usual — put out a call for proposals. What happened next was a total surprise...and delight! We started getting suggestions — over 50 of them! — for article proposals (a whole lot more than we could possibly print in one edition of the Folio). So...we did something that we’ve never done before — we decided to produce a Part 1 and Part 2, covering the Potpourri theme for both the 2015 and 2016 editions. Then with relief for some and disappointment for others, we had to sort out which authors would be in this Part 1 and who would have to wait until the 2016 edition Part 2 to see their work in print (Did we mention that almost everyone wanted to be included in the 2015 issue!) Eventually, however (maybe because we all know the wonderful world of Focusing and being and sitting with...) the roster for the two editions somehow miraculously worked itself out, and we are now able to offer you a very dynamic, very diverse, and very fascinating Potpourri of Focusing articles for your reading enjoyment. In a traditional potpourri, you will find an assortment of aromas, textures, and colors that are tossed together without regard to any particular form or order — and so, too, are our articles — artlessly mélanged without regard to subject, arranged only according to the author’s last name. And so...what we are hoping is that you will discover that this potpourri, like all potpourris, offers an accumulating perfume that refreshes our senses and adds a most wel- coming atmosphere to the world of Focusing. Welcome to Part 1 of the Potpourri edition of the Folio and enjoy! AND...for the first time ever, some of you are reading this edition on a Kindle! Con- gratulations to the Focusing Institute for your efforts in making this option possible. With regards from your Editors, Bala Jaison, Ph.D. Paula Nowick, Ed. D. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Folio is an ever evolving endeavor, enriched in each subsequent issue by the many people in our community who are dedicated to sharing ideas, techniques, possibilities, theories, personal stories, and, indeed, the latest news from across the globe that inspires so many possible crossings with Focusing. Our article writers can be seen as the ears and eyes of Focusing, bringing back to the community their collective felt-senses of events in the world as sensed deeply from within by hundreds of unique experiences. The efforts of our writers do more than inform our community; they build a community of ever-questing life-explorers. We Focusers are necessarily a mixed-breed of our species and proud to be so. Probably nothing could illustrate that fact as well as this Potpourri (Part 1) issue of the 2015 Folio, whose diversity of viewpoints, attitudes, and styles celebrate our community’s innate creativity and freedom. Guest Editors: Most of our writers used Guest Editors to help them organize and edit their articles, and, as you will read in some of their personal Acknowledgments, the support and encouragement of their Guest Editors made the challenging writing process less arduous than it might have been if they had been alone in their efforts. We, the editors of the Folio, also thank the Guest Editors for their careful proofreading. Your help greatly eased much of our editing. This year twenty-one people volunteered their time and expertise to help make this Folio so exceptional. We thank Kyle Arnold, Donna Blank, Abbe Blum, Dominic Barter, Regina Brennan, Ted Cox, Zena Goldenberg, Larry Hurst, Jocelyn Kahn, Mary Elaine Kiener, Joan Klagsbrun, Shirley Loeb, Adele Kehoe McFall, Julian Miller, Judy Moore, Bruce Nayowith, Carol Nickerson, Laury Rappaport, Lillian Sober-Ain, Lisa R.Tucci, and Donna Varnau. Cover Art: How, we wondered, do you illustrate a Potpourri of ideas? Would a picture of bowls of lavender, lemon slices, and pinecones do the trick? “Absolutely not!” declared Bala, who dashed off an email to last year’s cover designer, Shay Nowick, who had photoshopped a railroad crossing sign into a wonderful Focusing cover. “Can you figure out how to illustrate a collection of abstract ideas into a potpourri?” There was a lot of back and forth between us with a series of possibilities from glass-tilted pitchers, to globes, to rainbows in the sky, and at last, to this final cover, which we think ‘says it all’! Thanks to Shay’s expertise — and patience! — we finally came to a finished product that we are delighted with and hope you will be, too. Thank you again, Shay. Layout and Design: Every year a magical transformation occurs when we send an attachment of standard-looking Word documents to our designer/typesetter, Carolyn Kasper. Invisible to us, she is not only adjusting the raw copy into professional type, but she is check- ing for inconsistencies in format, erratic indentations, and a host of minor errors that make the difference between an amateur and professional academic presentation. A few weeks later, we receive back a 100+ page “galley” which show the articles now in a journal-sized vi • THE FOLIO • 2015 layout, and we get a little excited as we see the outlines of our forthcoming Folio.